Tremendous amounts of talent are lost to our society just because that talent wears a skirt.

You don't make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas.

Don't list to those who say YOU CAN'T. Listen to the voice inside yourself that says, I CAN.

Service is the rent that you pay for room on this earth.

In the end anti-black, anti-female, and all forms of discrimination are equivalent to the same thing: anti-humanism.

I ran for the presidency, despite hopeless odds, to demonstrate the sheer will and refusal to accept the status quo.

Defeat should not be the source of discouragement, but a stimulus to keep plotting.

Women must become revolutionary. This cannot be evolution but revolution.

I've always met more discrimination being a woman than being Black...men are men.

Laws will not eliminate prejudice from the hearts of human beings. But that is no reason to allow prejudice to continue to be enshrined in our laws - to perpetuate injustice through inaction.

Health is a human right, not a privilege to be purchased.

I am Death. I come quickly, I come slowly, but I am not cheated.

The God that humanity so keenly seeks, lives within the human biology, yet they wander hitherto searching for it.

The first thing you have to learn when you go into the arts is to learn to cope with rejection. If you can’t, you’re dead

When my dad passed, there's a lot of sadness right below the surface, and I think there will be until the day I die. So, writing sad songs helps it. And when I sing them, it's pure therapy for me.

Dad, one of my first memories is of sharing my worry with you about the space shuttle poking holes in the atmosphere and letting out all of Earth's air.

Today the main, over-riding purpose of the European Union is different: not to win peace, but to secure prosperity.

Imagining and visualising the situation prepares you for any challenge

So many things have happened to me in my life that I could be phobic about.

Lou Piniella only argues on days ending with the letter 'y'.